Relationship between Jews and Czech Society - the Case Varnsdorf in Czech Press 1947

Abstract

Paper is dedicated to the case of strike in March 1947. The strike in Varnsdorf was provoked by Revolutionary Trade Unions against Emil Beer. He came back from the exile in England after the WW II and as a Czech citizen - Jew he applied for the restitution his factory in the town Varnsdorf in northern Bohemia. According to law this restitution was certified by the court but Revolutionary Trade Unions and Communist Party organized the strike of works against its enforcement. The paper deals with kinds of reports about the strike and the enquitry in Czech press. It is shown that the leftist press created the Beer's negative image when some statements were suppressived purposely or were not indicated exactly